What does that mean, anyway?
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The SOPA-PIPA Saga - Freedom of Speech vs. Net Neutrality | Stanford Center for Internet and Society
I find it more disturbing than ironic that people implicitly and explicitly trust these companies, especially given evidence to the contrary, but fair point.
People who care about the democratic process should worry about the effectiveness by which companies like Google and Wikipedia appear to have leveraged their reputation as unbiased authorities of information to shape and mold public opinions. If they have the will and means to mobilize opinion, what is not to prevent them from discriminating their content in line with their corporate interests?
As we’ve seen with Google’s actions in social search lately, there’s nothing to prevent them from discriminating their content, and in fact, that seems to be an acceptable corporate goal to maximize profit.
Continuing:
While I cheer on the defeat of SOPA-PIPA, … I also have no false hopes that my interests on the Net can be best guaranteed by the likes of Google or Wikipedia or Facebook.
Well, at least there’s one guy out there who has thought all this through.
